The 50 person Seattle based wireless data company apparently views China as the “next frontier” for their business.  Their business name in China will be Ai Bi Ke Communications Technology Co.   From their press release:

“China is the next frontier for the connected services and telematics markets. We believe that the country is well positioned for continued long-term growth,” said Kamyar Moinzadeh, president and CEO of Airbiquity. “The Chinese market understands the need to integrate a host of features and functions into their telematics programs to differentiate their products. Airbiquity’s technology, already in more than 10 million cars, is the ideal choice for full-scale connected services deployments in China.”

Airbiquity plans to offer full local support to customers and users in China.  They’ve even established an office in Chengdu.  This story mostly caught my attention because Airbiquity started talking with Chinese outsourcing companies a couple years ago.  The press release doesn’t give enough information to figure out whether they’re doing this on some sort of Build-Operate-Transfer model, or whether they really are setting out on their own.

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